About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

February 7......

February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 327 (328 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1546 - Eleven days before his death, German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter to his wife Kate: 'I have a better Caretaker than you and all the angels. He it is who lies in a manger ...but at the same time sits at the right hand of God, the almighty Father. Therefore be at rest.'

● 1550 - Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III

● 1569 - King Philip II forms inquisition in South America

● 1613 - Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia

● 1639 - Académie Française begins the Dictionary of the French Language

● 1848 - First anarchist journal appears, Proudhon's "Le Representant du Peuple." It affirms that the emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself -- without the assistance of governments. Sells 40,000 copies.

● 1856 - The colonial Tasmanian Parliament passes the first piece of legislation (the Electoral Act 1856) anywhere in the world providing for elections by way of a secret ballot. [1]

● 1904 - Entire business section of Baltimore destroyed by the worst conflagration to strike an American city since the "Chicago Fire" of 1871. 2,600 buildings consumed by the flames; losses estimated at $125 million.

● 1968 - After American and South Vietnamese air and artillery strikes level the city of Bentre, South Vietnam (pop. 50,000), a U.S. Army major explains that "it became necessary to destroy the town to save it."

● 1968 - Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls

● 1969 - Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO

● 1969 - The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service.

● 1970 - In the first major action by the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front, more than 100 activists descend on Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood. For 30 years the bar has posted a sign, "Faggots -- Stay Out." Management refused to remove the sign and even posted six additional warnings in the past few weeks. Tonight the gay contingent picket and leaflet, but the signs remain. In a few nights, when a gay group spreads out through the bar and restaurant, owner Irving Held calls the sheriff's office repeatedly. When the deputies arrive, they take Held into the kitchen for a conference. After about an hour, employees take down the signs and give them to the demonstrators.

● 1974 - Radical group 'arrested' heiress; A little-known group calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army says its members are responsible for kidnapping 19-year-old newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.

● 1974 - General strike in Grenada forces England to recognize its independence. Within 10 years, the U.S. would invade anyway.

● 1976 - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)

● 1976 - Future Hall of Famer Darryl Sittler of the Toronto Maple Leafs scores six goals and records four assists in an 11-4 victory over the Boston Bruins, setting a NHL record with 10 points in one game.

● 1977 - Soyuz programme: Soyuz 24 launched.

● 1978 - Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert

● 1979 - Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.

● 1979 - The final session of Iranian National Consultative Assembly is held.

● 2005 - Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, the most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese, was convicted of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at his church during the 1980s.(Shanley was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison.)

● Roman Catholic:● St. Adaucus● St. Amulwinus● St. Anatolius● St. Augulus● St. Chrysolius● St. Fidelis● St. Julian of Bologna● St. Lawrence of Siponto● St. Luke the Younger● St. Meldon● St. Moses● Sts. Paul Miki and his 25 companions (d. Nagasaki, 1597)● St. Richard● St. Theodore Stratelates● St. Tressan● Bl. William Richardson● Bl. Rizzerio● Bl. Eugenia Smet (d. 1871)

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 25 (Civil Date: February 7)● St. Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople.● St. Publius, ascetic of Syria.● St. Mares the Singer of Syria.● Martyrs Felicitas of Rome and seven sons: Januarius, Felix, Philip, Silvanus, Alexander, Vitalis, and Martial.● St. Moses, Archbishop of Novgorod.● St. Castinus, Bishop of Byzantium.● St. Demetrius Skevophylax of Constantinople.● New-Martyr Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kiev (1918), protohieromartyr of the Communist Yoke.

● Greek Calendar:● Martyr Medula and her companions.● St. Apollo of Thebes, monk.● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Assuage My Sorrow"● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Unexpected Joy".● Repose of Starets Anatole the Elder of Optina (1894).

● Old Roman Catholic:● St. Romuald, abbot

● Christian:● St. Theodore

● Independence Day in Grenada (1974).

● Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Mulk (Dominion) - First day of the 18th month of the Bahá'í Calendar.

● Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo, Japan (2005).

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"● Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates end of winter - ( Sunday )● World : Boy Scouts Day (1910) - ( Sunday )

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